Asking EC about my chances

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Do you think it would be appropriate if I ask my EC in my interview about my chances of getting in? :D</p>

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<p>How would the EC know the answer to that question?</p>

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<p>Definitely DO NOT do this</p>

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<p>@ Dignified, ECs interview many students each year and I think at the end, they know which students whom they interviewed, could get in. They could tell you about your chances a little bit. but as Chris says himslef, even he can’t tell us exactly about a student’s chances.
@ Olini 616, you are right, I just read MIT interview guide and discussioin thread. Jimmy has said the same thing.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t ask.</p>

<p>They’re just going to say that they can’t answer anyway. =)</p>

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<p>I think the urge to ask random people to chance them is an addiction. It would make a good Intel project. Look at how the nucleus accumbens lights up when that person posts a “chance me” thread.</p>

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<p>no. bad idea.</p>

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<p>worst idea ever lol</p>

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<p>@ boomsakalaka> i know, lol…</p>

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<p>^I disagree ya’ll, at least he’s making conversation…</p>

<p>…The worst would be to write down and give them a link to a Chance-Me thread on CC. :P</p>

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<p>^and for that matter, to mail them subsequent “bumps” every week. lolz</p>

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<p>My EC told me that I shouldn’t even consider my “chances.” MIT could fill multiple classes with stellar students just like you, so it’s really kinda random which excellent students the admissions office is gonna let in.</p>

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<p>“random,” I dont think so, class diversity explains the ostensible “randomness” in admission</p>

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<p>To save resources and decrease costs though, they might have outsources decisions to third party organizations such as random.org</p>

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<p>*decrease labor costs
*outsourced</p>

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<p>hrm, if it is random, why have I been at the office 10-12 hours a day for the last 12 days??? </p>

<p>;)</p>

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<p>^devotion to creating the perfect randomization algorithm?</p>

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<p>^Hahahahaha. Absolutely</p>

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<p>nuts he found us out!!!</p>

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<p><a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/video-lectures/lecture-4-quicksort-randomized-algorithms/[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-046j-introduction-to-algorithms-sma-5503-fall-2005/video-lectures/lecture-4-quicksort-randomized-algorithms/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;